Overview
Evert is part of the Entourage partner team alongside PJ Bouten and Maarten Mortier, bringing hands-on operational experience from Showpad into the fund's work with early-stage founders.
His background at Showpad connects him to the broader Ghent SaaS mafia network that seeded Entourage's founding thesis.
Career history
In the news
- Today we are announcing Entourage Fund II Oversubscribed against our €75M target within two weeks of our first outreach, and closed at €100M. Backed entirely by entrepreneurs, family offices, and private investors. Two years ago we launched our first fund, focusing on software and operating with a founder-first approach. We wrote the first cheques into some of Europe’s fastest-growing technology companies, including Aikido Security, Conveo and Lexroom. Fund II remains focused on pre-seed & seed stages across Europe and beyond.
- 100 million to back the next generation of legendary founders. Introducing Entourage Fund II. Oversubscribed against our €75M target within two weeks of our first outreach. Closed at €100M. Backed entirely by entrepreneurs, family offices, and private investors. Since launching in 2024, we’ve written the first cheques into companies like Aikido Security, Conveo and Lexroom. With Fund II, we’re doubling down. We’ll back around 25 pre-seed and seed companies across Europe and beyond, with initial cheques of €1 million to 5
- Two years ago, we started Entourage Ventures to back the next generation of legendary founders. We wrote the first cheques into Aikido Security, Conveo, Lexroom and many more. Now we’re doubling down. 💥 €100 million. Entourage Fund II. Oversubscribed against our €75M target within two weeks of our first outreach. Closed at €100M. We’re backing pre-seed and seed founders across Europe and beyond - from AI and enterprise software to robotics, physical AI and deep tech. Same approach: build conviction, invest early and keep
- Every GTM tool now ships with an MCP and some AI-written emails. But that isn't agentic GTM yet. Today Pancake is publicly launching what they think it should look like: "the Vercel for GTM". You build your plays in Claude, Codex or whatever agent you already use, then deploy them on Pancake. It brings the GTM brain, the data providers and the delivery infrastructure, so your plays keep running after you close your laptop. 200 paying customers in the first 6 weeks of public beta, with about 20 new companies onboarding every day.
- Happy to share Entourage Ventures is leading the €5 million funding round of Sebas, together with Green Park Investment Partners, CNBB Equity Partners and Angel Invest. Sebas is building the AI-native property manager for Europe. They’ve already completed their first two acquisitions, built a strong organic growth engine, and reached 10,000 units under management. The Sebas journey started a year ago with internships at different property management companies, where the founders quickly saw the enormous potential for AI to
- Exciting milestone today for Conveo with the announcement of their $50M Series A. Congrats to Dieter De Mesmaeker, Hendrik Van Hove and the entire team! 🚀 Amazing to see the progress from the initial AI research assistant to today's consumer understanding infrastructure, used by over 400 enterprises globally. Glad we backed you with Entourage at the pre-seed, and excited for what's ahead! cc Pieterjan Bouten, Maarten Mortier, Anne-Elisabeth, Sixtine, Erwan, Illja, Florian Hendrickx 🔥 https://lnkd.in/ev_vZMmd
- AI is still lacking one essential skill: adapting when the world changes. The team at kausable is solving this. Let me introduce you to Entourage Ventures' latest investment 🚀 Today's AI is trained on ever-larger, but static datasets. Every new situation requires costly and time-consuming retraining, locking models to known task spaces. However, the hardest problems have no training data. Kausable is building a foundation model for dynamic systems. Instead of memorizing patterns from massive static datasets, it learns the causal
- Happy to share that Entourage Ventures is leading Sightera Biosciences’ €3 million pre-seed round 🚀 Sightera’s thesis is clear: train AI on real patient biology from day one. So the molecule follows the disease, not the other way around. Congrats Hendrik Vercammen, Maxim Le Compte, Lars Vanlommel & Christophe Deben on this important milestone! cc Pieterjan Bouten, Maarten Mortier, Anne-Elisabeth, Sixtine, Erwan, Illja, Steven Leuridan, PhD, CFA, Felix Van Camp, Koen Iterbeke https://lnkd.in/eF6SDVPn
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